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Hiroki Tanaka

Japanese association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ15674402 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hiroki Tanaka (田中 寛己, Tanaka Hiroki; born May 25, 1991) is a Japanese football player.

Career

He received his first appearance professional match on April 20, 2014, starting against JEF United Chiba.

Club statistics

Updated to 20 February 2017.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Hiroki Tanaka” as japanese association football player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hiroki, Tanaka and Japanese.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 2014, 2017—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1991-05-25, 1991-06-25—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Hiroki, Tanaka and Japanese providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Hiroki Tanaka”, the useful work is to connect “japanese association football player” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q15674402. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991, 2014 and 2017.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Hiroki Tanaka”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Hiroki Tanaka primary sources, Hiroki Tanaka archive and Hiroki research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Hiroki Tanaka”?
  2. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Hiroki Tanaka” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.